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nnn vs Midnight Commander: catalog facts
nnn	Midnight Commander
Free Free and open source under a BSD 2-clause licence.	Free Free and open source under the GPL.
macOS, Linux, Command line	macOS, Linux, Command line
About 150 KB and typically under 3.5 MB of memory in use Analyses disk usage, batch renames, launches apps and picks files	Works over any terminal, including a plain SSH session on a server Browses archives and remote filesystems as if they were local folders
No Windows build outside Cygwin or WSL Previews and many conveniences need plugins and external programs	Text interface with function-key bindings takes getting used to Windows needs Cygwin or WSL
Downloadable app	Downloadable app
Open source	Open source
License: BSD-2-Clause	License: GPL-3.0
No account needed	Not stated if an account is needed
Works offline	Not stated if it works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 21, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 22, 2026

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